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have replied to the survey ... have a 3080 master with similar LCD ... same problems for the last 2 years so don't hold up much hope for them fixing. only works for me briefly just after running a nvidia driver update but before rebooting. Bios updates are painful! RGB Fusion is essential non-functional.
Hi @der8auer EN I have a colourful iGame RTX 3070Ti, the form does not have a section for the iGame center. This software is very bad, it has two different sections for setting up RGB lighting one being in top bar with the bulb logo and another one within the device menu and within that it has another option for "Light Settings". Both of them only work for the current boot and once the system power cycles the GPU reverts back to the default setting of red light blinking. Sometimes it turns to the set config after the windows log in but other times it requires the software to be launched so that the RBG setting can be applied. Additionally the software always runs as an administrator on the system which is the reason I have disabled it to automatically run on start-up. If you try to Linux there is no way to turn off the RBG.
I have the 3090 master ,same problem whit software,i usée aorus engine whit rgb fusion and its trach,for the price of this Card tout expecte That all work fine but no. Il waiting for News amd gpu review .ga whit video.grtz from belgium
I shared the link in 3 of my computer chat channels on discord :D - I REALLY wanna see how this turns out because I have NEVER had a good experience with RGB
Its not the software fault its his user error he not using the 3-pin RGB Header Cable that need to plug in the card to the motherboard for fusion to work with the card omg guy lol!
This was the thing that surprised me the most when I first build a custom PC. All software associated with hardware is just insanely bad. BIOS Interfaces are impossible to navigate, motherboard and RGB looks like it was made by a single intern in 2003 and often doesn’t work properly and even performance monitors and overlocking tools are sometimes really difficult to use.
@misanthrop Well, personally I care a lot about that kind of stuff, the problem is more that from what I've seen there isn't a single manufacturer with 'good' software. And while I use Macs for personal stuff, there isn't really an alternative to custom PCs if you want to play games.
I think RGB should be standardized a controlled over operating system. I imagine something like volume control or media keys. You don't need special 3rd party software to control volume, same with modern keyboards with media keys. They just works no matter who is hardware developer, because they follow unified standardized rules.
No thanks, I don't want even more bloatware in Windows that I'll never use. Let people who like horrible LED gimmick use horrible proprietary software. It's a match made in hell.
Looking forward to that software video. I HATE Armoury Crate. It’s always running background processes and live services. It’s difficult to fully uninstall and leaves so much junk behind.
Armoury crate is so shit that it should be illegal to require it to run some stuff from Asus. I've had so many issues with it that I'll probably never buy anything from Asus again.
the only issue I had with AC is that it wouldnt install properly, once it did, the only thing was it wouldnt recognise my RAM for ARGB setting. The workaround was to use something like signalRGB, but yea, no troubles from then on.
Roman I don't know what phrase you would use in your native German to describe GPU-RGB control software but you certainly nailed it in English. "Shit" is about as accurate as you can get and thanks for being frank about an issue many RUclipsrs dance around.
Went back to Gigabyte for my AM5 build after 5 years on an ASUS board. I was very excited as I’d used Gigabyte since my first builds in the late 2000s. It’s been an absolute nightmare. The board itself is incredible quality. Build quality is great and very well made. The UEFI BIOS was an absolute nightmare to get into and work around it. Absurdly unresponsive and kept reverting changes after restarts without clearing CMOS. I finally got it going after a few tries and decided to give up on the fan curve software built into the UEFI. I thought the desktop software would work better for it. I thought wrong. Gigabyte’s desktop software is even worse than their UEFI somehow. Fan curves never stuck and I had to close and reopen the software after first boot for the RGB and fan curves to start working. But worst of all, the built in update manager insists NORTON IS REQUIRED. You cannot reject the software, you can’t hide the “update”. Thank god it does not auto install. I uninstalled it and am living with the default rbg (which is basically non existent on the Elite AX board) and Fan Control for my fan curves. I love Gigabyte and their products but I might move away from them again until they can get themselves sorted out on the software side. It is unacceptable that for the price of AM5 boards and 40 series video cards that the software is so egregiously bad.
I almost thrown an ASUS TUF AM4 board into the trash when I upgraded my PC from 1st gen Ryzen to last on AM4. Bios settings didn't stick, PC didn't power down always. Sometimes after power down you couldn't start it back up without unplugging it. I was losing my mind, swapped the MB to a Gigabyte Aorus, everything turned perfect. Yeah, the fan curves are ridiculous and the RGB software too, but at least I can turn on and off my PC.....which seems to not be the norm nowadays....
@@dadwillfixit huh, I have an ROG Strix B650-A, and installing the OS didn't give me any problems. The only issue I had was my AIO preventing the system from booting to Windows 11 (I have a Liquid Freezer II on my Ryzen 7 7700X), because the board has fan headers for both the AIO pump and CPU fan. But because the Liquid Freezer II has a single connector, I simply had to turn on ignore CPU fan warnings and my PC turns on without any hiccups.
LOOL. Thanks for sharing your experience. I come pretty much from the same grounds as you. I've personally built systems on Gigabyte brand since the mid '00 , and been a loyal fan of theirs too. However what you've described!!! I've had the exact same problems on the RTX 2080 Gaming OC card, first the cooler was just a cheap flimsy plastic and there's nothing to hold the card onto when plugging it in besides that cooling shroud which came off immediately!!! and I had to glue it back... Also the coil whine!!! which is apparently the norm!? and you can't get rid of it as it's part of the specs!? also the drivers took several minutes to recognize and install!? I remember problems with their software too, but why I'm writing this message, is because I've had the exact same problem with temp. fun curve too. Where it would ramp up to max at certain temps, and then turn off, then ramp up and turn off etc in cycles. I tried to organize the fan curve fixing it in bios and in the software NOTHING had worked!!! So I ended up selling that card to an unfortunate buyer but for a good price for him, and buying a 1080 Ti (the best GPU purchase of my life). Since then I have an anxiety of buying a new GPU as I'm afraid to get all of those problems back again. And now that you've mention Gigabyte still having those exact same problems 3 Gens down the stack line , now I'm definitely going to skip this Gen too. Hopefully they can fix their sh. by the 5000 series? Also I seriously don't get how coil whine in our day and age is "just the norm" and you have to accept it??? I seriously don't get it... Why is my 1080 Ti has NO PROBLEMS AT ALL, no coil whine no nothing, everything works perfectly out of the box. The best GPU purchase of my life and I couldn't be happier with it... I wish I bought it at launch. Will not be upgrading till the next gen now.
Thank you so much for talking about fan speeds, curves, noise levels, coil whine, and suggesting improvements for companies. Many GPUs' behavior is outside my noise tolerance, and I am really tired of buying Macs for lack of a suitably silent PC. I wanna game, dog gone it!
@der8auer EN - Good sir, I really enjoyed this review, it was extensive and very easy to follow. I quite liked the audio samples of the card in conjunction with the performance. putting the mic near the card to hear it really gave me the confidence to purchase the card I was on the fence about. Thanks a bunch for the review.
I love the Aorus cards. I have the 3090 Xtreme. Same problem though the software sucks!! I can change the colors & the LCD screen, but it freezes the system. After a reboot it works fine, but I get Lag spikes every 6 seconds & it took me forever to figure out this software was the culprit. It's a shame they STILL can't get their software to work. So I have an amazing GPU with an LCD screen that I can't use. Awesome.
for my aorus master 3080ti I had to use nvidia's studio drivers to get the RGB Fusion software to recognize my card existing at all. Now RGB Fusion recognizes the card being there 99% of the time, but the software itself is laggy as hell and lacks a lot of customization options for the LCD screen- such as choosing what sensor data to display when using a custom image...can either choose to use a pre-loaded aorus image and then pick what sensor data to display, or use your own image and have to display all sensor data or no sensor data at all. Likewise, must keep the software running in the background to display live sensor data on the LCD screen, but as you said, leaving the software running causes my system (ryzen 3700X) to randomly lag out for 2-3s every 30m or so.
*HYPE* that you're going to do an investigative video on the shitty software these AIBs try to just shovel out and never fix. For me, MSI's Dragon Center broke after 1 reboot. Wouldn't open at all after, just uninstalled and never looked back. I own a MSI RTX 3090 Gaming X.
It's about time that someone actually starts investigating the software side of hardware (not only GPU's, BTW) because software is usually an "afterthought" with these companies and they don't really care if not everything works as it should.
Thank you for saying it loud! Yes, these hardware manufacturers make good hardware, but their software ALMOST always falls short. I really wish they resorted to more OpenSource solutions so that users could tailor the layouts and GUI themselves with the functions they need.
As usual and to be expected: Precise, clearly defined and superior in terms of how information is presented and articulated. Keep it coming, this is beautiful.
I can't say anything bad about gigabyte software. I'm using since ever and I had any problems, but it has to be used correctly. If you just installing everything out of the package don't expect miracles. I'm very satisfied with this brand.
I have a Gigabyte Aero 4080 Gigabyte’s RGB fusion software has literally crashed my computer three times. It will also lock the RGB on my Corsair RAM. A simple restart won’t reset it. I literally have to shut off my computer to get the RGB to work again. Luckily , I don’t tinker with my gpu rgb all that much so it’s not that big an issue for me but for these others guys and these AORUS masters, this must suck x10.
I have been struggling with the rgb software in general to the point where I refuse to install anything from the OEMs. Armoury crate literally ruined my PC. 10070k ROG Z490 would not shutdown 80% of the time, it would refuse to restart 80% of the time, all the lights would randomly unsync every couple of minutes or completely bug out, armoury crate would hang my pc and the problems persisted even after a clean install of windows. Finally gave up installed windows again and never touched armoury crate again, all the problems went away, as for the lights I use OpenRGB with a profile that loads at the start of the computer and it works perfectly.
On one hand, it's sad to see the issues with the new 4000 series of cards, though since I can't afford one right now anyway, somehow learning of these issues lessens the regret.
I am very much impressed on the effort you put to your videos. I am new in Deutschland that is why I am still getting used to the Language. And since I am very much into computers I find your Videos very helpful not only because I am into Computers but also because it helps me learn new Vocabularies by wathcing on this channel and then switching to your main channel right after. It helps me a lot learning new words and Expressions. Especially with the Aussprache :) after my work at the Hospital I always watch your videos to learn the language and all about new things regarding computers and computer parts. Hopefully soon i can also build my own rig here in Germany. Danke schön :) Ihre Videos sind immer Top Notch! :)
Used now two Gigabyte gaming OC 4090s and agree that the default OC BIOS fan curve just seems silly - much like the default 4090 power target. Both cards exhibited basically zero coil whine as well, so it seems Gigabyte have done something well in this respect. But yes - their software has been atrocious for me too. I briefly installed their RGB fusion, just to switch off the lighting. It caused a BSOD, according to the dump file analysis. Not surprising to see that their Gigabyte Control Centre also doesn't pass muster.
Would be interested to see more info concerning the "Resizable Bar" setting: enabled vs. disabled. As far as GPU software: Sapphire's latest version 8.7.0 "TriXX" software fails to identify it's own Sapphire AMD Vega 56 GPU. The previous version 8.6.0 did recognize the GPU. So: version 8.7.0 has been broken for several months now.
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I have a Gigabyte 3080ti and the Aorus software is really bad. We had similar software bak in the late 90's.. Well they were even better back then. But to be a well known company like Gigabyte and not invest in a few decent coders does not make sense.. Keep them honest rewievs coming! 👍🏼
These cards are sexy, but way to chonkers! Maybe one day when I build a basic gaming machine where there aren't any extra PCIe lanes to worry about blocking I could get on board, but for now all new GPUs I touch are either gonna come with a waterblock pre-installed or AIO variants.
I have a X570 Gigabyte Master mobo and a 3080 Gigabyte Master, and the RGB Fusion software doesn’t work correctly. It’s clunky. I’ve reinstalled the software, completely plugged/unplugged the GPU and PSU…it just doesn’t detect the GPU or RAM consistently. Never fails to act goofy. Always something funky happening with RGB Fusion. I even bought a Gigabyte B550 Pro mobo for my dad’s computer and I had problems with the RGB Fusion there too. I’m scared to buy any Gigabyte gear for my twin niece’s builds. You mentioned you’re gonna do a video/survey about what manufacturer suck(s)at software and grade them…I’m super stoked for this type of video. For my niece’s builds I’m gonna take a chance on ASUS. We’ll see how that turns out.
They should make all RGB a standard which can be controlled by any software with the ability to add new like add a Lua file of sort. So tired of them all making something different to get the same result.
As the owner of a 4090 aurus, I confirm. Сontrol center is as glitchy as possible. I can always make a profile in Afterburner and adjust it as delicately as I want. I'm happy with the card in general. But I only wish I could change the display settings.
I got my 3080ti AORUS MASTER 1year and a half ago, and ive been using RGB fusion for it(to edit the panel screen and the rgb) and when it comes to changing the LCD screen picture sometimes can be a nightmare have to reupload multiple times/restart pc because GPU can randomly dissapear from the software. other than that a great GPU havent had any issues with it so far. Glad to see these kind of review!!!
Have the same card and rgb fusion left 3 drives unusable and my lcd still does nothing but custom gif mode. Nothing else works. I was the only owner of the card and they refused to rma it and it was still within warranty.
In a previous video you were wondering why they decided to go with that bigger cooler for the 4090, if just reducing the power limit would work with minimal FPS loss. And here it is... the 4080, with lower power limit.. and still the same huge cooler!! OMG!!! 🤦♂ Great videos! Thanks for your work!
Gigabyte products have some really weird quirks. My Z170 board I bought year ago had USB-C and I was able to quick charge my phone. The Aorus Master Z390 board I got has USB-C, but won't allow the higher amperage charging at all. It would work with the Gigabyte 2080 that I bought at that time, but not the motherboard. Then, trying to get some customer support was a nightmare and ended up sending me the same pdf files from their site. I haven't upgraded my computer since before 2020, but when I do Gigabyte will not be purchased.
I got the 3080Ti Master solely for the looks and the screen on the side, and their software doesn't even recognize my card. So my case, fans, motherboard, and even my keyboard are all the same color thanks to ASUS Aura; but my GPU is stuck in rainbow mode and I can't change the display to show temps like I wanted. The card runs perfectly, but the fact I can't change the looks of it are really annoying. I've been thinking of trying SignalRGB to control all the lights in my PC, but that still leaves the screen that I can't change
I own the Gaming OC version and one of the issues with the RGB fans is it only activates when it's on. The GPU runs so cool that the fans rarely need to spin.
im pretty happy with my aorus. I had the luxury of choosing between the windforce, zotac, verto epic-x and this card. Ultimately the performance difference is negligible but the prices were not. Aorus sits firmly in the middle of pricing, its performance is great, temps sit at 28 degrees F, 32 while gaming, hardly any noticiable noise over my 3090 strix and its a good looking card inside of my case. The software is ass, but it is what it is.
All RGB devices should have some 4pin connector standard that you can hook up to a hub. This way you can get any hub you want control via a phone app, remote or any software you wish. None of this you need a program from multiple vendor nonsense. My latest system i dropped RGB all together to avoid the mess of bloated software.
The only RGB software that I've used that doesn't absolutely infuriate me is Corsair iCUE and Signal RGB. The best setup I've come up with is a Commander Core XT with all of my RGB parts switched to the Corsair connectors that I got from ModDIY. This allows me to control everything in my system with iCUE even though most of it is not Corsair parts and eliminated the terrible ARGB connectors. I just avoid RGB memory to avoid dealing with the terrible software that is required for most motherboard RGB control.
Talking about software for some reason RGB fusion was causing my mic issues and I have no idea why. When I plugged in my controller my mic stopped working in windows and at the same time the rgb on the ram lit up. So I decided to uninstall the software to see if it made a difference and it fixed. How on earth is an rgb software causing me mic issues? Lmao, anyways using signal rgb now and it’s much better
Hope they make the Aorus Master for the AMD cards as well... I just really like the styling of gigabyte compared to others... Will be upgrading next year around spring/summer and an all Aorus Master setup would look nice. Just depends on what's out at that time and the pricing. A little extra 'branding tax' i can take, just depends on how much... :)
Kudos for calling out shitty software. Somebody like you has to do it. P.S. I don't care in the slightest about RGB; I agree though that if that display is a special feature of the card, it should indeed be properly supported from day 1. Maybe OpenRGB can work for RGB and things like this display (if its API is available). I can highly recommend FanControl in the place of any motherboard or GPU bundled fan control. The only thing that's missing to complete the picture is overclocking - maybe you could just temporarily run Precision or Afterburner to find the clocks you want, then flash a modified BIOS with said clocks, then ditch the software.
I also think cooling performance is combination of thin fans with increased fins density. Software and factory fan curve only makes things worse. At least it does look nice but that's subjective. Coil whine doesn't matter with loud cards if you don't plan to put waterblock on it.
GigaByte's software has long-been absolutely atrocious. And not _just_ GB, but basically every mainboard & GPU partner brand. If these companies would hire first-party software engineers, instead of outsourcing their code work to the lowest bidder, maybe all of their software wouldn't be such total horseshit.
Aorus Master software for the 3070 kinda works. What would be amazing is all rgb software could change a product to the settings I want and save it to the product so I never needed to launch the software again.
I have an Asus GPU, Msi mobo, Corsair AIO and case lighting strips, Phantek case and Kingston ram, I use signaRGB and it controls everything perfectly once you set your layout correctly, seems to impact the cpu's performance the least as well. Out of all the software's, icue was the worse losing over 1200 points in cinebench when its running, signaRGB seem to be under 500 points.
I can't get over the fact that is so massive. Even if it is for the purpose of better cooling, how's the over clocking headroom for all of these new 4000 series?
@der8auer EN 10:40 Suggestion: Can these Coil Whine test be done on 60FPS - 500FPS - 1000FPS? That would be a clear indication of what the idle Coil Whine would be and the Max.
Gigabyte had the same issue with their Waterforce X 240 AIO. It was over a year after release before you could change any of the default settings on the LCD display.
I use RGBFusion with my Aorus Master RTX 4090 - If I do an all sync on all my Aorus devices - Motherboard, Keyboard, Monitor, Strip lights, Mouse, headset (don't have their RAM), the GPU will also sync with it.
They had the same exact problems on the 30 series cards as well. I had both a 3070 and 3080 aorus master, and when i could finally get the software to work properly, it would forget everything the next day. Super annoying and like you said its the main point of the card. After multiple generations youd expect them to fix it. I switched to asus and the rgb software works fine.
This makes me nervous now lol. Have had a Gigabyte GPU and motherboard for 4 years and never had any issues lol. Everything from RGB Fusion to BIOS updates worked just fine. Maybe I was lucky
I gave up trying to use Gigabytes any software back when I got my Z77 motherboard 10 years ago. It was consistently shit across my upgrades throughout the years. BIOS is also gimped on most models unless you pay for the expensive motherboards, meanwhile if you crossflash the bios, you get the features.
I hear your pain. I had all sorts of trouble with RGB control on my Z490 'board. That said, I downloaded RGB Fusion 2 from the Gigabyte 'site (Gigabyte > Z490 > Aorus > Master > Support) and touch wood (he says, touching his head!) I've had no problems. Maybe the RGB Fusion 2 iteration for your 'board may work better? 👍🙏🏾
I have 4070 Ti Aorus Elite and I can select the card in the control centre app and I can configure whatever I want, but nothing happens that I selected before. I cant even turn RGB off!
A couple of questions Roman. Are you surprised at the size of the cooler of the AIB 4080's given their much lower TDP? Why do you think Nvidia chose to use, what looks like the same cooler as the 4090?
@@Ziegeri Probably just that, especially with these early cards which the AIBs probably expect very little profit margin on. I think we might see more optimized 4080s coming later if the 4080 line is popular, especially once the AIBs can sell cards above MSRP without complaints from Nvidia. All in all though the 4080 line so far is pretty underwhelming, and not just in the ways we always knew it was going to be with the differences between AD102 and AD103, but also because almost all AIBs appear to just not give a shit about making sensible 4080 cards. The 4080 is overpriced and underwhelming in every way.
Personally as I hate RGB and lights junk as long as the software worked properly and gave me the needed control I would be happy. From what I have been seeing so far most of them fail this so they won't have this customer unless it's cleared up.
I got my ROG Strix 4080 OC since yesterday and tried to replicate your coil whine finding. I tried it all till Ultra settings but this thing is even quieter then my previous 2080TI. It doesn’t pull even 500W on a 1200 PSU while my 13900 K doesn’t go above 60 degrees. Verdict : I ❤ MY ROG STRIX 4080 OC 😁
I wouldn't doubt the reason we are seeing such good temperatures on these video cards and cooling solutions is because Nvidia was expecting to release them drawing 600 watts. With the uproar that came out in the world from this, they pulled it back but didn't have time to change the cooling solutions.
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have replied to the survey ... have a 3080 master with similar LCD ... same problems for the last 2 years so don't hold up much hope for them fixing. only works for me briefly just after running a nvidia driver update but before rebooting. Bios updates are painful! RGB Fusion is essential non-functional.
Hi @der8auer EN I have a colourful iGame RTX 3070Ti, the form does not have a section for the iGame center. This software is very bad, it has two different sections for setting up RGB lighting one being in top bar with the bulb logo and another one within the device menu and within that it has another option for "Light Settings". Both of them only work for the current boot and once the system power cycles the GPU reverts back to the default setting of red light blinking. Sometimes it turns to the set config after the windows log in but other times it requires the software to be launched so that the RBG setting can be applied. Additionally the software always runs as an administrator on the system which is the reason I have disabled it to automatically run on start-up. If you try to Linux there is no way to turn off the RBG.
I have the 3090 master ,same problem whit software,i usée aorus engine whit rgb fusion and its trach,for the price of this Card tout expecte That all work fine but no.
Il waiting for News amd gpu review .ga whit video.grtz from belgium
I shared the link in 3 of my computer chat channels on discord :D - I REALLY wanna see how this turns out because I have NEVER had a good experience with RGB
Its not the software fault its his user error he not using the 3-pin RGB Header Cable that need to plug in the card to the motherboard for fusion to work with the card omg guy lol!
This was the thing that surprised me the most when I first build a custom PC. All software associated with hardware is just insanely bad. BIOS Interfaces are impossible to navigate, motherboard and RGB looks like it was made by a single intern in 2003 and often doesn’t work properly and even performance monitors and overlocking tools are sometimes really difficult to use.
but it has a cool aorus logo 😎
2004. Get your facts right. Ha ha.
And it was the Janitor Bob. Not an intern at the time.
@misanthrop Well, personally I care a lot about that kind of stuff, the problem is more that from what I've seen there isn't a single manufacturer with 'good' software.
And while I use Macs for personal stuff, there isn't really an alternative to custom PCs if you want to play games.
Argus Monitor is where it's at 👌
5 programs in one and it's damn good at it.
I think RGB should be standardized a controlled over operating system. I imagine something like volume control or media keys. You don't need special 3rd party software to control volume, same with modern keyboards with media keys. They just works no matter who is hardware developer, because they follow unified standardized rules.
We could only dream of this...
That would be nice for consumers but then the manufacturers wouldn't be able to box you into their ecosystem.
No thanks, I don't want even more bloatware in Windows that I'll never use. Let people who like horrible LED gimmick use horrible proprietary software. It's a match made in hell.
I think RGB should be removed entirely. Guess we’re all dreaming! :D
@@Glotttis I think having a graphical interface is stupid and just bloat. We should go back to just using DOS command line. Am I cool yet?
Looking forward to that software video. I HATE Armoury Crate. It’s always running background processes and live services. It’s difficult to fully uninstall and leaves so much junk behind.
Armoury crate is so shit that it should be illegal to require it to run some stuff from Asus. I've had so many issues with it that I'll probably never buy anything from Asus again.
The worst part is armory crate is built into mobo bios
Yeah AC literally never recognized any tuf or strix gpu i ever had. Its junk
the only issue I had with AC is that it wouldnt install properly, once it did, the only thing was it wouldnt recognise my RAM for ARGB setting. The workaround was to use something like signalRGB, but yea, no troubles from then on.
I actually like the app, the background processes doesn't bother me at all.
Roman I don't know what phrase you would use in your native German to describe GPU-RGB control software but you certainly nailed it in English.
"Shit" is about as accurate as you can get and thanks for being frank about an issue many RUclipsrs dance around.
das ist eine beschissene Software genau dort
Shitza?
10:24 thank you for that coil whine test
How many years is it gonna take for these brands to get their RGB software to a decent level and working together. Absolutely bonkers.
I'm very happy with Corsair's iCUE, though. Everything has been working flawlessly on Win11 for months, no bugs.
Went back to Gigabyte for my AM5 build after 5 years on an ASUS board. I was very excited as I’d used Gigabyte since my first builds in the late 2000s.
It’s been an absolute nightmare. The board itself is incredible quality. Build quality is great and very well made.
The UEFI BIOS was an absolute nightmare to get into and work around it. Absurdly unresponsive and kept reverting changes after restarts without clearing CMOS. I finally got it going after a few tries and decided to give up on the fan curve software built into the UEFI. I thought the desktop software would work better for it.
I thought wrong. Gigabyte’s desktop software is even worse than their UEFI somehow. Fan curves never stuck and I had to close and reopen the software after first boot for the RGB and fan curves to start working. But worst of all, the built in update manager insists NORTON IS REQUIRED. You cannot reject the software, you can’t hide the “update”. Thank god it does not auto install. I uninstalled it and am living with the default rbg (which is basically non existent on the Elite AX board) and Fan Control for my fan curves.
I love Gigabyte and their products but I might move away from them again until they can get themselves sorted out on the software side. It is unacceptable that for the price of AM5 boards and 40 series video cards that the software is so egregiously bad.
I almost thrown an ASUS TUF AM4 board into the trash when I upgraded my PC from 1st gen Ryzen to last on AM4. Bios settings didn't stick, PC didn't power down always. Sometimes after power down you couldn't start it back up without unplugging it. I was losing my mind, swapped the MB to a Gigabyte Aorus, everything turned perfect. Yeah, the fan curves are ridiculous and the RGB software too, but at least I can turn on and off my PC.....which seems to not be the norm nowadays....
@@dadwillfixit huh, I have an ROG Strix B650-A, and installing the OS didn't give me any problems. The only issue I had was my AIO preventing the system from booting to Windows 11 (I have a Liquid Freezer II on my Ryzen 7 7700X), because the board has fan headers for both the AIO pump and CPU fan. But because the Liquid Freezer II has a single connector, I simply had to turn on ignore CPU fan warnings and my PC turns on without any hiccups.
@@ResidentWeevil2077 ROG is fine, TUF is garbage
@@dadwillfixit well, ROG and TUF are separate entities within Asus, that's probably why
LOOL. Thanks for sharing your experience. I come pretty much from the same grounds as you. I've personally built systems on Gigabyte brand since the mid '00 , and been a loyal fan of theirs too. However what you've described!!! I've had the exact same problems on the RTX 2080 Gaming OC card, first the cooler was just a cheap flimsy plastic and there's nothing to hold the card onto when plugging it in besides that cooling shroud which came off immediately!!! and I had to glue it back... Also the coil whine!!! which is apparently the norm!? and you can't get rid of it as it's part of the specs!? also the drivers took several minutes to recognize and install!? I remember problems with their software too, but why I'm writing this message, is because I've had the exact same problem with temp. fun curve too. Where it would ramp up to max at certain temps, and then turn off, then ramp up and turn off etc in cycles. I tried to organize the fan curve fixing it in bios and in the software NOTHING had worked!!! So I ended up selling that card to an unfortunate buyer but for a good price for him, and buying a 1080 Ti (the best GPU purchase of my life). Since then I have an anxiety of buying a new GPU as I'm afraid to get all of those problems back again. And now that you've mention Gigabyte still having those exact same problems 3 Gens down the stack line , now I'm definitely going to skip this Gen too. Hopefully they can fix their sh. by the 5000 series? Also I seriously don't get how coil whine in our day and age is "just the norm" and you have to accept it??? I seriously don't get it... Why is my 1080 Ti has NO PROBLEMS AT ALL, no coil whine no nothing, everything works perfectly out of the box. The best GPU purchase of my life and I couldn't be happier with it... I wish I bought it at launch. Will not be upgrading till the next gen now.
Thank you so much for talking about fan speeds, curves, noise levels, coil whine, and suggesting improvements for companies. Many GPUs' behavior is outside my noise tolerance, and I am really tired of buying Macs for lack of a suitably silent PC. I wanna game, dog gone it!
@der8auer EN - Good sir, I really enjoyed this review, it was extensive and very easy to follow. I quite liked the audio samples of the card in conjunction with the performance. putting the mic near the card to hear it really gave me the confidence to purchase the card I was on the fence about. Thanks a bunch for the review.
I feel the same. Roman is the man, no bullshit, straight to the point.
Gigabyte software is bad for many many years.
Just a bit!
RGB fusion is a pile of shit.
Especially bios for mobo, very slow updates
@@peterpeter5666
Asrock is arguably worse
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MSI software is ok to use but the cards are engineered by drunk monkeys.
I love the Aorus cards. I have the 3090 Xtreme.
Same problem though the software sucks!!
I can change the colors & the LCD screen, but it freezes the system.
After a reboot it works fine, but I get Lag spikes every 6 seconds & it took me forever to figure out this software was the culprit.
It's a shame they STILL can't get their software to work. So I have an amazing GPU with an LCD screen that I can't use. Awesome.
for my aorus master 3080ti I had to use nvidia's studio drivers to get the RGB Fusion software to recognize my card existing at all. Now RGB Fusion recognizes the card being there 99% of the time, but the software itself is laggy as hell and lacks a lot of customization options for the LCD screen- such as choosing what sensor data to display when using a custom image...can either choose to use a pre-loaded aorus image and then pick what sensor data to display, or use your own image and have to display all sensor data or no sensor data at all.
Likewise, must keep the software running in the background to display live sensor data on the LCD screen, but as you said, leaving the software running causes my system (ryzen 3700X) to randomly lag out for 2-3s every 30m or so.
*HYPE* that you're going to do an investigative video on the shitty software these AIBs try to just shovel out and never fix.
For me, MSI's Dragon Center broke after 1 reboot. Wouldn't open at all after, just uninstalled and never looked back. I own a MSI RTX 3090 Gaming X.
It's about time that someone actually starts investigating the software side of hardware (not only GPU's, BTW) because software is usually an "afterthought" with these companies and they don't really care if not everything works as it should.
Thank you for saying it loud! Yes, these hardware manufacturers make good hardware, but their software ALMOST always falls short. I really wish they resorted to more OpenSource solutions so that users could tailor the layouts and GUI themselves with the functions they need.
No coil whine is the most important . MSI AB custom fan curve is easy to set ,so no need to worry.
He knows that, but he need to test out of the box because he know only stupid people will buy this card and it need to work well out of the box.
@@PyromancerRift Well ,i think ppl who buy VGAs in this price range; are enthusiastic gamers ,so they for sure using MSI AB.
As usual and to be expected:
Precise, clearly defined and superior in terms of how information is presented and articulated.
Keep it coming, this is beautiful.
4:50 "we want to figure out which is the worst of the worst"
Gigabyte: Challenge accepted!
😂😂😂😂
I can't say anything bad about gigabyte software. I'm using since ever and I had any problems, but it has to be used correctly. If you just installing everything out of the package don't expect miracles. I'm very satisfied with this brand.
I have a Gigabyte Aero 4080 Gigabyte’s RGB fusion software has literally crashed my computer three times. It will also lock the RGB on my Corsair RAM. A simple restart won’t reset it. I literally have to shut off my computer to get the RGB to work again. Luckily , I don’t tinker with my gpu rgb all that much so it’s not that big an issue for me but for these others guys and these AORUS masters, this must suck x10.
I have been struggling with the rgb software in general to the point where I refuse to install anything from the OEMs. Armoury crate literally ruined my PC. 10070k ROG Z490 would not shutdown 80% of the time, it would refuse to restart 80% of the time, all the lights would randomly unsync every couple of minutes or completely bug out, armoury crate would hang my pc and the problems persisted even after a clean install of windows. Finally gave up installed windows again and never touched armoury crate again, all the problems went away, as for the lights I use OpenRGB with a profile that loads at the start of the computer and it works perfectly.
On one hand, it's sad to see the issues with the new 4000 series of cards, though since I can't afford one right now anyway, somehow learning of these issues lessens the regret.
4080 series hasn't had issues. It's only 4090 with that insane power.
I am very much impressed on the effort you put to your videos. I am new in Deutschland that is why I am still getting used to the Language. And since I am very much into computers I find your Videos very helpful not only because I am into Computers but also because it helps me learn new Vocabularies by wathcing on this channel and then switching to your main channel right after. It helps me a lot learning new words and Expressions. Especially with the Aussprache :) after my work at the Hospital I always watch your videos to learn the language and all about new things regarding computers and computer parts. Hopefully soon i can also build my own rig here in Germany. Danke schön :) Ihre Videos sind immer Top Notch! :)
Thank you 😬 and keep up the work on German. Really hard language 💪
Ich werde mein Bestes geben. Danke schön :)
Used now two Gigabyte gaming OC 4090s and agree that the default OC BIOS fan curve just seems silly - much like the default 4090 power target. Both cards exhibited basically zero coil whine as well, so it seems Gigabyte have done something well in this respect.
But yes - their software has been atrocious for me too. I briefly installed their RGB fusion, just to switch off the lighting. It caused a BSOD, according to the dump file analysis. Not surprising to see that their Gigabyte Control Centre also doesn't pass muster.
Would be interested to see more info concerning the "Resizable Bar" setting: enabled vs. disabled. As far as GPU software: Sapphire's latest version 8.7.0 "TriXX" software fails to identify it's own Sapphire AMD Vega 56 GPU. The previous version 8.6.0 did recognize the GPU. So: version 8.7.0 has been broken for several months now.
I have a Gigabyte 3080ti and the Aorus software is really bad. We had similar software bak in the late 90's.. Well they were even better back then. But to be a well known company like Gigabyte and not invest in a few decent coders does not make sense.. Keep them honest rewievs coming! 👍🏼
These cards are sexy, but way to chonkers!
Maybe one day when I build a basic gaming machine where there aren't any extra PCIe lanes to worry about blocking I could get on board, but for now all new GPUs I touch are either gonna come with a waterblock pre-installed or AIO variants.
I have a X570 Gigabyte Master mobo and a 3080 Gigabyte Master, and the RGB Fusion software doesn’t work correctly. It’s clunky. I’ve reinstalled the software, completely plugged/unplugged the GPU and PSU…it just doesn’t detect the GPU or RAM consistently. Never fails to act goofy. Always something funky happening with RGB Fusion. I even bought a Gigabyte B550 Pro mobo for my dad’s computer and I had problems with the RGB Fusion there too. I’m scared to buy any Gigabyte gear for my twin niece’s builds. You mentioned you’re gonna do a video/survey about what manufacturer suck(s)at software and grade them…I’m super stoked for this type of video. For my niece’s builds I’m gonna take a chance on ASUS. We’ll see how that turns out.
the card is loud due to static pressure impedance from the denser finstack. basically a cost saving measure to maintain similar cooling performance
Get to da Chopper!! Awesome Review - really keen to purchase and all the issues you have mentioned are fixable in software
They should make all RGB a standard which can be controlled by any software with the ability to add new like add a Lua file of sort.
So tired of them all making something different to get the same result.
As the owner of a 4090 aurus, I confirm. Сontrol center is as glitchy as possible. I can always make a profile in Afterburner and adjust it as delicately as I want. I'm happy with the card in general. But I only wish I could change the display settings.
I got my 3080ti AORUS MASTER 1year and a half ago, and ive been using RGB fusion for it(to edit the panel screen and the rgb) and when it comes to changing the LCD screen picture sometimes can be a nightmare have to reupload multiple times/restart pc because GPU can randomly dissapear from the software. other than that a great GPU havent had any issues with it so far. Glad to see these kind of review!!!
Have the same card and rgb fusion left 3 drives unusable and my lcd still does nothing but custom gif mode. Nothing else works. I was the only owner of the card and they refused to rma it and it was still within warranty.
Glad you're still addressing the coil whine.
The only RGB "software" I've used is setting a static RGB value in my ASRock X570 ITX BIOS. No need for extra software in Windows which is nice.
not even my z690 aorus master does that. all I want is to set rgb in bios and set fan curves based on a max value of 2 sensors (gpu and cpu).
In a previous video you were wondering why they decided to go with that bigger cooler for the 4090, if just reducing the power limit would work with minimal FPS loss.
And here it is... the 4080, with lower power limit.. and still the same huge cooler!! OMG!!!
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Great videos! Thanks for your work!
Gigabyte products have some really weird quirks. My Z170 board I bought year ago had USB-C and I was able to quick charge my phone. The Aorus Master Z390 board I got has USB-C, but won't allow the higher amperage charging at all. It would work with the Gigabyte 2080 that I bought at that time, but not the motherboard. Then, trying to get some customer support was a nightmare and ended up sending me the same pdf files from their site. I haven't upgraded my computer since before 2020, but when I do Gigabyte will not be purchased.
I have the Aorus Master RTX 4090 - no complaints with it so far.
I also have the Aorus Master RTX 3080 Ti on my other PC :)
I absolutely agree with your conclusion. I'm glad you tried to attach the 4090 cooler to the 4080 card. I like your logical and scientific thinking.
I got the 3080Ti Master solely for the looks and the screen on the side, and their software doesn't even recognize my card. So my case, fans, motherboard, and even my keyboard are all the same color thanks to ASUS Aura; but my GPU is stuck in rainbow mode and I can't change the display to show temps like I wanted. The card runs perfectly, but the fact I can't change the looks of it are really annoying. I've been thinking of trying SignalRGB to control all the lights in my PC, but that still leaves the screen that I can't change
I own the Gaming OC version and one of the issues with the RGB fans is it only activates when it's on. The GPU runs so cool that the fans rarely need to spin.
im pretty happy with my aorus. I had the luxury of choosing between the windforce, zotac, verto epic-x and this card. Ultimately the performance difference is negligible but the prices were not. Aorus sits firmly in the middle of pricing, its performance is great, temps sit at 28 degrees F, 32 while gaming, hardly any noticiable noise over my 3090 strix and its a good looking card inside of my case. The software is ass, but it is what it is.
Aorus should have fired their entire software division a couple of years ago and just paid whatever it takes to fix it.
All RGB devices should have some 4pin connector standard that you can hook up to a hub. This way you can get any hub you want control via a phone app, remote or any software you wish. None of this you need a program from multiple vendor nonsense. My latest system i dropped RGB all together to avoid the mess of bloated software.
Gigabyte software has always been broken , i went with an i-game 4090 and their software works perfectly 👌
The only RGB software that I've used that doesn't absolutely infuriate me is Corsair iCUE and Signal RGB. The best setup I've come up with is a Commander Core XT with all of my RGB parts switched to the Corsair connectors that I got from ModDIY. This allows me to control everything in my system with iCUE even though most of it is not Corsair parts and eliminated the terrible ARGB connectors. I just avoid RGB memory to avoid dealing with the terrible software that is required for most motherboard RGB control.
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Talking about software for some reason RGB fusion was causing my mic issues and I have no idea why. When I plugged in my controller my mic stopped working in windows and at the same time the rgb on the ram lit up. So I decided to uninstall the software to see if it made a difference and it fixed.
How on earth is an rgb software causing me mic issues? Lmao, anyways using signal rgb now and it’s much better
They used 13 heat heat pipes on the 4080 Master with the dense fins. You could easily turn the fans lower.
it’s crazy how some aspects of the PC industry change so slowly. RGB software has been bad for years and years, never really changes much
Hope they make the Aorus Master for the AMD cards as well... I just really like the styling of gigabyte compared to others... Will be upgrading next year around spring/summer and an all Aorus Master setup would look nice. Just depends on what's out at that time and the pricing. A little extra 'branding tax' i can take, just depends on how much... :)
They wont their bias towards nvidia
Kudos for calling out shitty software. Somebody like you has to do it.
P.S. I don't care in the slightest about RGB; I agree though that if that display is a special feature of the card, it should indeed be properly supported from day 1. Maybe OpenRGB can work for RGB and things like this display (if its API is available).
I can highly recommend FanControl in the place of any motherboard or GPU bundled fan control.
The only thing that's missing to complete the picture is overclocking - maybe you could just temporarily run Precision or Afterburner to find the clocks you want, then flash a modified BIOS with said clocks, then ditch the software.
Lovely honest review! Big thumbs up! +1
@ 9:46 WTF you do not have it set to reach 100% fan speed?
"...Almost no COIN WHILE at all..." 10:42
I also think cooling performance is combination of thin fans with increased fins density.
Software and factory fan curve only makes things worse.
At least it does look nice but that's subjective. Coil whine doesn't matter with loud cards if you don't plan to put waterblock on it.
GigaByte's software has long-been absolutely atrocious. And not _just_ GB, but basically every mainboard & GPU partner brand.
If these companies would hire first-party software engineers, instead of outsourcing their code work to the lowest bidder, maybe all of their software wouldn't be such total horseshit.
Aorus Master software for the 3070 kinda works. What would be amazing is all rgb software could change a product to the settings I want and save it to the product so I never needed to launch the software again.
2:00 can you switch the coolers, and test the temps?
I have an Asus GPU, Msi mobo, Corsair AIO and case lighting strips, Phantek case and Kingston ram, I use signaRGB and it controls everything perfectly once you set your layout correctly, seems to impact the cpu's performance the least as well.
Out of all the software's, icue was the worse losing over 1200 points in cinebench when its running, signaRGB seem to be under 500 points.
Hey Roman, where did you get that 180 degree 12VHPWR tester ?
I can't get over the fact that is so massive. Even if it is for the purpose of better cooling, how's the over clocking headroom for all of these new 4000 series?
@der8auer EN
10:40 Suggestion: Can these Coil Whine test be done on 60FPS - 500FPS - 1000FPS?
That would be a clear indication of what the idle Coil Whine would be and the Max.
Choose between bad cooling or coil whine.
Roman, any updates on the Zen4 delid tool release schedule? Can't wait to get my hands on the finalized version!
Gigabyte had the same issue with their Waterforce X 240 AIO. It was over a year after release before you could change any of the default settings on the LCD display.
you can setup fan speed and clock with Msi Afterburner right !
Thanks! Great look at this card. Any idea if the software is fixed yet???
10:43 "almost no coin while" 😁
I use RGBFusion with my Aorus Master RTX 4090 - If I do an all sync on all my Aorus devices - Motherboard, Keyboard, Monitor, Strip lights, Mouse, headset (don't have their RAM), the GPU will also sync with it.
Good ol' Gigabyte: their warranty process sucks, and so does their software. Nothing like paying a premium for no reason
They had the same exact problems on the 30 series cards as well. I had both a 3070 and 3080 aorus master, and when i could finally get the software to work properly, it would forget everything the next day. Super annoying and like you said its the main point of the card. After multiple generations youd expect them to fix it. I switched to asus and the rgb software works fine.
2:30 Where can this WireView readout be sourced? I can't seem to find it.
did you find it?
@@bloodygekkon I learned that it's something he's making in-house. It's not ready just yet but it's coming eventually.
Did you ever find out why your 4090 was running at PCIe 8x?
I would not buy a 4080 but if I had to, I like how the master looks.
10:45 "Almost no coin while at all" sorry i had to point that out lol
Any chance of looking into how the 4080 performs with various lowered TDP levels?
Me: I hope Shiek appears.
Shiek: Not today.
What if ASUS went and upgraded the thermal paste on the Strix as you observed?
Hello, I'm choosing between 4090 suprim x and aorus master, can you tell me what is the top from gigabytes in terms of the quality of the components?
4090 suprim x
This makes me nervous now lol. Have had a Gigabyte GPU and motherboard for 4 years and never had any issues lol. Everything from RGB Fusion to BIOS updates worked just fine. Maybe I was lucky
I gave up trying to use Gigabytes any software back when I got my Z77 motherboard 10 years ago. It was consistently shit across my upgrades throughout the years. BIOS is also gimped on most models unless you pay for the expensive motherboards, meanwhile if you crossflash the bios, you get the features.
I hear your pain. I had all sorts of trouble with RGB control on my Z490 'board. That said, I downloaded RGB Fusion 2 from the Gigabyte 'site (Gigabyte > Z490 > Aorus > Master > Support) and touch wood (he says, touching his head!) I've had no problems. Maybe the RGB Fusion 2 iteration for your 'board may work better? 👍🙏🏾
I had bad coil whine on my RTX 3070, but seated it better and the whine went away. I wonder if excess coil whine is from bad power delivery??
When is that power readout gonna be available? I really need that
Where to buy such an adapter for a video card?
I have 4070 Ti Aorus Elite and I can select the card in the control centre app and I can configure whatever I want, but nothing happens that I selected before. I cant even turn RGB off!
A couple of questions Roman. Are you surprised at the size of the cooler of the AIB 4080's given their much lower TDP? Why do you think Nvidia chose to use, what looks like the same cooler as the 4090?
Maybe it is just cheaper to not have to design and manufacture 2 different coolers.
@@Ziegeri Probably just that, especially with these early cards which the AIBs probably expect very little profit margin on.
I think we might see more optimized 4080s coming later if the 4080 line is popular, especially once the AIBs can sell cards above MSRP without complaints from Nvidia.
All in all though the 4080 line so far is pretty underwhelming, and not just in the ways we always knew it was going to be with the differences between AD102 and AD103, but also because almost all AIBs appear to just not give a shit about making sensible 4080 cards.
The 4080 is overpriced and underwhelming in every way.
They were probably planning on pushing the cards further wattage wise and pulled back
I've just started using signal rgb, I have a asus motherboard and a msi gpu, and it also works with my logitech mouse and keyboard.
Did intel ever patch the cryocool software? Been weeks
I think NVIDIA is not allowing any changes to TDP or clocks with bios switch. No partner models did that in 30 series and now 40.
I always set manual fan curves anyway, but the factory OC curve seems rubbish.
Could someone please give me exact depth measurements? I am worried that the cable will hit the glass of my case. Thanks
Where can i find the wireview for 12vhpwr ?! Tks!!
My problem with the gigabyte control center is that it only detects my RTX 4090 but it doesn't detect my motherboard or it's ram and fans
Personally as I hate RGB and lights junk as long as the software worked properly and gave me the needed control I would be happy. From what I have been seeing so far most of them fail this so they won't have this customer unless it's cleared up.
I got my ROG Strix 4080 OC since yesterday and tried to replicate your coil whine finding. I tried it all till Ultra settings but this thing is even quieter then my previous 2080TI. It doesn’t pull even 500W on a 1200 PSU while my 13900 K doesn’t go above 60 degrees. Verdict : I ❤ MY ROG STRIX 4080 OC 😁
You won coil whine lottery. Not everyone is so lucky.
so you saying coil whine was only for that specific
I wouldn't doubt the reason we are seeing such good temperatures on these video cards and cooling solutions is because Nvidia was expecting to release them drawing 600 watts. With the uproar that came out in the world from this, they pulled it back but didn't have time to change the cooling solutions.
Where to buy that WireView power adapter?
And Gigabyte issued a new bios, seems they listened to you. Can you please retest it with the new version ? Very curious.